On the Creative Background of Music City in the Sky

Miyazaki Hayao wants to make an adventure story about a young hero fighting for his dream. Before writing, he knew that the theme was not attractive to the audience. He said that when a man gets a job or a position, he is regarded as an adult. For women, body image can establish her role, while for men, it needs intangible things such as social status and destiny to support it.

The music of "City in the Sky" is mainly electro-acoustic and synthesizer, with horn, children's chorus and piano sketch, and the theme song is sung by Miss Azumi Inoue.

Among them, the version sung by the children's choir in Sugiyama District can be said to be the voice of an angel, which shows the ethereal and sadness of the city in the sky. < シータの Decision > This is a piano sketch that describes what the two protagonists saw and heard when they first arrived in Lapda. It's a wonderful and popular film.

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The manuscript of City in the Sky is adapted from Miyazaki Hayao's Journey to Xiuna. The Journey to Xiuna is a fully painted book created by Miyazaki Hayao according to Tibetan folklore. However, due to the deterioration of Sino-Japanese relations at that time, it was not made into a film, which is also the reason why Miyazaki Hayao began to incorporate world peace into the theme of animation works.

Looking at all the animated films in Miyazaki Hayao, it is not difficult to find that "flying" is its eternal theme. In this film, he even moved the stage to a "castle in the air"-Lapda, the city of the sky.

This is an aerial city with the flying stone of anti-gravity device as the suspension power. Miyazaki Hayao, who is full of strong social consciousness and humanistic care, tries to insinuate the existing drawbacks of human civilization by asking the root of the loss of civilization and explore the philosophical proposition of how civilization survives and develops. All this is reflected by the rise and fall of Laputa, a fictional city in the sky.